What's most impressive to me is what Kyle put on his plate in his first 2 NFL throws. First, a RPO, second a deep play action pass. Play action passes ask more of a QB when run under center because he's going to have to turn his back to the defense and when he turns back around he has to recognize coverage and his reads VERY quickly as well as have great footwork.
Here, we're going to run a variation of a "pole" concept where it acts as a full vertical stretch. The "pole" combines a streak from the inside receiver with a deep comeback to put the deep 1/3 corner in conflict. He has to choose to defend the streak or the deep comeback. We add in a flat route by the RB off PA to pull any underneath coverage. So, he has a full 3 level vertical stretch going on here.
Just wanted to highlight CJ having to turn his back to the defense. What CJ's going to have a hard task of is that he was shown cover 3 zone in the pic above - the corners hips turned inwards reveal zone, and the FS have rolled over to that 2 receiver side. That's going to adjust his read.
This is a really odd way to play this coverage by WAS, I think they may have been anticipating either a flood/sail or pole concept. The safety rolls over the top and the deep 1/3 corner is playing in a trail position. Normally, I'd say this is man-coverage but that's a LB on Garcon and the rest of the defense is playing zone. CJ has to turn and immediately see these 3 players in position on the pole combination.
With the underneath coverage cleared out by the vertical routes the flat is open and you see CJ starting his windup.
Here's an example of footwork and mechanics I was talking about. He doesn't step in to his throw enough. He's got plenty of room he just doesn't step in to the throw. That means he's not driving off his back foot. It puts you off balance as well as your shoulders will dip a little bit through the throw. Which means the pass will end up coming short of the target.
Sure enough, the pass ends up short and behind Breida. Still catch-able though. Should've been caught but you also wanna get that ball in a place where he can do something with it after the catch. You have a RB 1v1 on a corner in space - that's as Bill Walshian as you get and a great mismatch.
[ Edited by jonnydel on Oct 18, 2017 at 10:21 AM ]
It takes about 15 min per each one of these
